All: - It leaks objects. - Session management Desktop: - Add special destkop entries ("Network neighborhood") - Solid icons on the desktop are required Panels: - Global bindings (some shortcuts are not implemented) - Split view. - External panelize hangs Viewer: - Toolbar - Enable editor. - Fix colors. - Add cursor - Debug monitor Widgets: - Push history - Use Gnome File Entry where possible. DND: - Get sopwith to fix the random motion of his dnd icons. - Check the purify stuff. Observations from Dr Mike: From msf@redhat.com Wed Apr 1 15:12:58 1998 Return-Path: To: Miguel de Icaza cc: msf@redhat.com, marc@redhat.com Subject: gmc observations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 16:14:50 -0500 From: Michael Fulbright Ok you asked for it... General Comments ---------------- - needs documentation, context help, etc. Is anyone writing this? - icon view would be nice, I realize its in the works - the panel scrollbar is wierd - if you middle mouse click somewhere the thumb moves there, but if you then move the mouse (while holding middle button down) up and down, the thumb doesn't follow the mouse. However, if you middle click and drag on the thumb, it does follow. I think the thumb should follow in both cases. This is a gtk comment I'm sure. DONE - some dialogs only had a single entry box (like the ftp link one), DONE when you hit return in the entrybox it would be nice if that mapped DONE to hitting 'Ok' so you wouldnt have to hit Ok manually. Panel comments --------------- - The list headers dont seem to resize nicely - if I run gmc and try to shrink the 'Name' column, it won't accept the new size and returns to the original size. If I resize the gmc window, then it seems to start working SOMETIMES. Sorry I can't come up with a better failure mode - just run gmc and see if you can resize the 'Name' column. - when the name column does resize, and its so small it clips the longer names, there should probably be an indication that the filename has been truncated. I think win95 puts a '...' at the end to let you know the string is truncated in that column. I think its a really nice touch, but not a complete show stopper. > - I take it the shaped-window DnD isnt working, obviously we want to have > nice looking drag cursor behavior at some point. =========> This works on my machine. When you start a drag from a file, =========> or a group of files it should show a little icon. Same applies =========> to dragging the desktop icons. - the user needs some feedback that something is happening - for example, on an ftp link, the cursor needs to change or a modal dialog popping up saying 'getting directory listing...' or something. - 'Compare panels' doesnt appear to do anything - i didnt see any feedback after I chose the compare method. > - No matter what the sort mode, the directories seem to always get listed > first. Maybe this should be personal preference? ======> this is a setting. It is called mix files. If it is set, then you ======> get a mixed directory/file listing, if not, you get the directories first. - Alt-t didnt seem to change the listing mode. - the pull-downs on the entry boxes under the floating menubar dont seem to do anything. I thought they might act as a history of the last few directories visited or something. DONE - a toobar with a 'back' type button would be handy - I realize the '..' DONE folder does the same thing, but in a long file listing its nice to DONE just have a button to do it. DONE - I got several 'sigpipes' when trying to view a ftpfs file, or DONE when trying to view RPM tags via the rpmfs. DONE DONE Open a RPM, then got into the INFO pseudo-dir, the VIEW a RPM tag. It DONE will sigpipe. DONE - is there a way to click and drag and select all the files you drag DONE over? Sortof a interactive 'select group' option. - the internal viewer, in hex mode, seems to shove the ASCII side of the view (the rightmost column) off the side of the window. - internal viewer - search didnt seem to work in hex mode - internal viewer - search should hilight the matching text DONE - some files when I try to 'Open' them, it just does nothing. I'm DONE guessing no association existed - if so it should tell me and let DONE me create an association DONE - I couldnt view files inside of a RPM which I was browsing via the ftpfs DONE is this just cause I'm nuts to try? DONE - it might be good to do a rescan after a panel accepts a drag event. Is DONE that an option? - I didnt get an error message when I tried to change the file modes on a file I didnt own. - double clicking on a file object seemed to try to push an artificial drag sometimes, I thought it would try to open it or something. - when selecting 'Copy' from the right click menu, it would be nice to have a browsable tree to select the destination from. - i couldnt seem to drag things onto the root window Configure Options ----------------- DONE - Buttons at bottom (Ok, Save, Cancel) - Save overlays the Ok button DONE - the 'Pause after run' radio buttons - you can select 'on dumb Terminals' DONE and Never at the same time, etc etc. I only one should be selectable DONE at a time. I could get several combinations where multiple were selected. DONE - no matter if I hit 'Ok' or 'Save', if I immediately reenter the Options DONE dialog, the check buttons are all reset, ie. it didnt 'keep' my settings. - need some sort of help for all these options, they aren't too intuitive. We can't assume people are going to read the man page. - 'Find File' dialog - the Tree button needs a pixmap Also, during a find, the dialog violently resizes as it lists the directories it is searching through. Seems like the label showing the currently searched dir needs to be a separate container or something. It looks like its in the first column of the table of buttons below it. VFS Options ----------- - Passive ftp option? - it was nice to get feedback when grabbing a file via ftp - this sort of feedback while grabbing a ls listing from a ftp server would be cool. Internal Viewer --------------- DONE - no vertical scrollbar!